South Carolina Civilians in Sherman's Path: Stories of by Karen Stokes

By Karen Stokes

in the course of the fateful wintry weather and spring of 1865, hundreds of thousands of civilians in South Carolina, old and young, black and white, felt the effect of what normal William T. Sherman referred to as "the not easy hand of war." This e-book tells their tales, a lot of which have been corroborated by means of the testimony of Sherman's personal squaddies and officials, and different eyewitnesses. those old narratives are taken from letters and diaries of the time, in addition to newspaper money owed and memoirs. the writer has drawn at the excellent assets of the South Carolina old Society's selection of manuscripts and courses to give those precise, compelling tales of South Carolinians.

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